Swanage Railway

Location

Last Visited: 2015 View Google Map, Geocoding, Google Earth pushpin, what3words, etc.

Closed and ripped up by British Rail in 1972, the Swanage Railway has slowly been rebuilt, and has now re-instated a service to Wareham.

These days the railway offers one of the most intensive heritage steam and diesel train services in the country.

Seeing a huge engine like Eddystone pulling half a dozen or so coaches along six miles of near level track at a maximum speed of twenty-five miles a hour make me wonder what Wilbert Awdry's Gordon the Big Engine would have to say in similar circumstances.

Perhaps we need to start a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dumb Steam Engines!

Check the Swanage Railway's website for opening times etc.

• Blue Pool
• Corfe Castle
• Pikes' Tramway

The information on Secundus that used to be here is now on the Corfe Castle Station page.

Information on the Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum can now be found here.